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Yearbook of the International Heiner Müller Society 2 (2025)

“Hamlet - Müller - Germany”

Edited by Norbert Otto Eke, Janine Ludwig and Florian Vaßen

In the poem “Hamlet,” Ferdinand Freiligrath formulated 180 years ago in the Vormärz period: “Germany is Hamlet” – the figure of Hamlet as an embodiment or even an allegory for the social situation in the German territories at the time. Whether coincidence or coincidence, repetition or even re-enactment – at the time of the “Wende” and with a view to German unity, the premiere of Heiner Müller’s monumental production of Hamlet/Machine took place on

Bandung to Berlin explores the radical imagination of the global Cold War, the aesthetics of Non-Alignment, and the role of art in the era of decolonization. Though these topics are often treated as separate paradigms, their points of interconnection are deeply entangled. As former colonies across Africa, Asia, and the Caribbean fought for and gained independence, new national agendas navigated the competing pressures of the Cold War and resisted a dichotomous world order. This conference will explore transnational artistic exchanges and cultural diplomacy in the years 1947-1989, especially

Call for Papers "Museums, Memory, Politics", 24-25 January 2025, Virtual Conference

The Museums and Memory working group of the Memory Studies Association welcomes proposals for its first-ever conference, to be held virtually on 24 and 25 January 2025. 

The theme of the 2025 conference, “Museums, Memory, Politics”, offers an opportunity to consider how museums navigate our increasingly politicized present from a position of entanglement within legacies of the past that continue to construct them as unquestioned arbiters of collective memory. Representing historical actors, ideologies, and events